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Ventilation and filtration of clinics during COVID

Date Published
Duration
21:48
Category
Respiratory

Dr Kelvin Ward talks about ventilation and filtration within a covid pandemic and what general practices need to know about multi-layered mitigation of risk.

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Take home messages

Resources

  1. Core recommendations for reducing airborne infectious aerosol exposure
  2. Indoor Air Changes and Potential Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
  3. Exhaled CO2 as a COVID-19 Infection Risk Proxy for Different Indoor Environments and Activities
  4. Use of portable air cleaners to reduce aerosol transmission on a hospital COVID-19 ward
  5. Guide to air cleaner purchasing
  6. Portable Air Cleaner Calculator
  7. Reducing the risk of Covid-19 transmission through the use of air purifiers

Patient Resources

Presenter

Kelvin Ward

Urgent Care Physician

Kelvin is currently Medical Director at the Wellington Accident and Urgent Medical Centre. He also consults as a technical expert for clinic audits against the Urgent Care Clinic standard. He has a special interest in the use of point of care ultrasound in the acute primary care setting and in promoting its use to other clinicians and students. Most recently Kelvin has developed an interest in air quality and has been involved in promoting to GP leads and ministry.

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